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1Northern’s application was filed with the 

Commission under Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act. 

2The appendices referenced in this notice are not 

being printed in the Federal Register. Copies of all 

appendices, other than Appendix 1 (maps), are 

available on the Commission’s Web site at the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link or from the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, 

DC 20426, or call (202) 502–8371. For instructions 

on connecting to eLibrary refer to the last page of 

this notice. Copies of the appendices were sent to 

all those receiving this notice in the mail. 

3 ‘‘We’’, ‘‘us’’, and ‘‘our’’ refer to the 

environmental staff of the Office of Energy Projects 

(OEP). 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[ Docket No. CP07–108–000] 

Northern Natural Gas Company; Notice 

of Intent to Prepare an Environmental 

Assessment for the Proposed Redfield 

Expansion 2008 Project and Request 

for Comments on Environmental 

Issues 

April 16, 2007. 

The staff of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC or 

Commission) will prepare an 

environmental assessment (EA) that will 

discuss the environmental impacts of 

the Redfield Expansion 2008 Project 

involving construction, relocation, and 

operation of facilities by Northern 

Natural Gas Company (Northern) in and 

to an existing gas storage field in Dallas 

County, Iowa.1 This EA will be used by 

the Commission in its decision-making 

process to determine whether the 

project is in the public convenience and 

necessity. 

If you are a landowner receiving this 

notice, you may be contacted by a 

pipeline company representative about 

the acquisition of an easement to 

construct, operate, and maintain the 

proposed facilities. The pipeline 

company would seek to negotiate a 

mutually acceptable agreement. 

However, if the project is approved by 

the Commission, that approval conveys 

with it the right of eminent domain. 

Therefore, if easement negotiations fail 

to produce an agreement, the pipeline 

company could initiate condemnation 

proceedings in accordance with state 

law. 

A fact sheet prepared by the FERC 

entitled ‘‘An Interstate Natural Gas 

Facility On My Land? What Do I Need 

To Know?’’ was attached to the project 

notice that Northern provided to 

landowners. This fact sheet addresses a 

number of typically asked questions, 

including the use of eminent domain 

and how to participate in the 

Commission’s proceedings. It is 

available for viewing on the FERC 

Internet Web site (http://www.ferc.gov). 

Summary of the Proposed Project 

Northern is proposing to expand its 

firm cycle capacity at the existing 

Redfield Storage Field by 8.0 billion 

cubic feet (Bcf) of storage capacity, 

supported by about 17.95 Bcf of cushion 

gas capacity, and be capable of injecting 

gas at maximum rate of 1.0 Bcf per day 

and withdrawing and delivering gas at 

a maximum rate of 2.5 Bcf per day. 

Northern seeks authority to undertake 

the following construction-related 

activities in Dallas County, Iowa: 

• Drill and complete five new 

injection/withdrawal wells; 

• Convert eight existing wells from 

single completion to dual completion; 

• Install new separators, water pump 

valves, drain lines, line heaters, surface 

piping, and buildings at the thirteen 

(above) wells, and install about 2,400 

feet of 6-inch-diameter pipeline to 

connect those wells to existing storage 

field pipelines; 

• Install a new 16-inch control valve, 

dehydration tower, filter separator, and 

appurtenant facilities on the Mt. Simon 

system; 

• Install a new dehydration tower and 

appurtenant facilities on the St. Peter 

system; 

• Install additional gas treatment 

facilities at the existing Redfield 

Compressor Station to remove hydrogen 

sulfide; 

• Abandon a 6,960-horsepower (hp) 

Solar Taurus 60S–T7000 simple cycle 

gas turbine driving a C–33 compressor 

and a 1,400-hp Waukesha L7042GSI 

engine driving an Ariel reciprocating 

compressor, as well as suction 

scrubbers, suction/discharge headers, 

valves, coolers, mufflers, and filters 

from the Sublette Compressor Station in 

Seward County, Kansas, and reinstall 

those facilities at the Redfield 

Compressor Station along with 

associated controls; 

• Use two staging areas within the 

Redfield Compressor Station property; 

and 

• Install three new access roads 

totaling about 2,200 feet. 

The location of the project facilities is 

shown in Appendix 1.2

Land Requirements for Construction 

Construction of the proposed facilities 

would require about 259.1 acres of land. 

Following construction, about 3.5 acres 

would be maintained as new 

aboveground facility sites and 

permanent rights-of-way. The remaining 

255.6 acres of land would be restored 

and allowed to revert to its former use. 

The EA Process 

The National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA) requires the Commission to 

take into account the environmental 

impacts that could result from an action 

whenever it considers the issuance of a 

Certificate of Public Convenience and 

Necessity. NEPA also requires us to 

discover and address concerns the 

public may have about proposals. This 

process is referred to as ‘‘scoping’’. The 

main goal of the scoping process is to 

focus the analysis in the EA on the 

important environmental issues. By this 

Notice of Intent, the Commission staff 

requests public comments on the scope 

of the issues to address in the EA. All 

comments received are considered 

during the preparation of the EA. State 

and local government representatives 

are encouraged to notify their 

constituents of this proposed action and 

encourage them to comment on their 

areas of concern. 

In the EA we 3 will discuss impacts 

that could occur as a result of the 

construction and operation of the 

proposed project under these general 

headings: 

• geology and soils 

• land use 

• water resources, fisheries, and 

wetlands 

• cultural resources 

• vegetation and wildlife 

• air quality and noise 

• endangered and threatened species 

• hazardous waste 

• public safety 

We will also evaluate possible 

alternatives to the proposed project or 

portions of the project, and make 

recommendations on how to lessen or 

avoid impacts on the various resource 

areas. 

Our independent analysis of the 

issues will be in the EA. Depending on 

the comments received during the 

scoping process, the EA may be 

published and mailed to federal, state, 

and local agencies, public interest 

groups, interested individuals, affected 

landowners, newspapers, libraries, and 

the Commission’s official service list for 

this proceeding. A comment period will 

be allotted for review if the EA is 

published. We will consider all 

comments on the EA before we make 

our recommendations to the 

Commission. 

To ensure your comments are 

considered, please carefully follow the 

instructions in the public participation 

section below. 


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Public Participation 

You can make a difference by 

providing us with your specific 

comments or concerns about the project. 

By becoming a commentor, your 

concerns will be addressed in the EA 

and considered by the Commission. You 

should focus on the potential 

environmental effects of the proposal, 

alternatives to the proposal, and 

measures to avoid or lessen 

environmental impact. The more 

specific your comments, the more useful 

they will be. Please carefully follow 

these instructions to ensure that your 

comments are received in time and 

properly recorded: 

• Send an original and two copies of 

your letter to: Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First St., NE., Room 

1A, Washington, DC 20426. 

• Label one copy of the comments for 

the attention of Gas Branch 3. 

• Reference Docket No. CP07–108–

000. 

• Mail your comments so that they 

will be received in Washington, DC on 

or before May 18, 2007. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing of any comments or 

interventions or protests to this 

proceeding. See 18 CFR 

385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions 

on the Commission’s Web site at 

http://www.ferc.gov under the ‘‘eFiling’’ link and the link to the User’s 

Guide. Before you can file comments 

you will need to create a free account 

which can be created on-line. 

We may mail the EA for comment. If 

you are interested in receiving it, please 

return the Information Request 

(Appendix 3). If you do not return the 

Information Request, you will be taken 

off the mailing list. 

Becoming an Intervenor 

In addition to involvement in the EA 

scoping process, you may want to 

become an official party to the 

proceeding, or ‘‘intervenor’’. To become 

an intervenor you must file a motion to 

intervene according to Rule 214 of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (18 CFR 385.214). Intervenors 

have the right to seek rehearing of the 

Commission’s decision. Motions to 

Intervene should be electronically 

submitted using the Commission’s 

eFiling system at http://www.ferc.gov. 

Persons without Internet access should 

send an original and 14 copies of their 

motion to the Secretary of the 

Commission at the address indicated 

previously. Persons filing Motions to 

Intervene on or before the comment 

deadline indicated above must send a 

copy of the motion to the Applicant. All 

filings, including late interventions, 

submitted after the comment deadline 

must be served on the Applicant and all 

other intervenors identified on the 

Commission’s service list for this 

proceeding. Persons on the service list 

with email addresses may be served 

electronically; others must be served a 

hard copy of the filing. 

Affected landowners and parties with 

environmental concerns may be granted 

intervenor status upon showing good 

cause by stating that they have a clear 

and direct interest in this proceeding 

which would not be adequately 

represented by any other parties. You do 

not need intervenor status to have your 

environmental comments considered. 

Environmental Mailing List 

An effort is being made to send this 

notice to all individuals, organizations, 

and government entities interested in 

and/or potentially affected by the 

proposed project. This includes all 

landowners who are potential right-ofway grantors, whose property may be 

used temporarily for project purposes, 

or who own homes within distances 

defined in the Commission’s regulations 

of certain aboveground facilities. By this 

notice we are also asking governmental 

agencies, especially those in Appendix 

2, to express their interest in becoming 

cooperating agencies for the preparation 

of the EA. 

Additional Information 

Additional information about the 

project is available from the 

Commission’s Office of External Affairs, 

at 1–866–208-FERC or on the FERC 

Internet Web site (www.ferc.gov) using 

the eLibrary link. Click on the eLibrary 

link, click on ‘‘General Search’’ and 

enter the docket number excluding the 

last three digits in the Docket Number 

field. Be sure you have selected an 

appropriate date range. For assistance, 

please contact FERC Online Support at 

FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll free 

at 1–866–208–3676, or for TTY, contact 

(202)502–8659. The eLibrary link also 

provides access to the texts of formal 

documents issued by the Commission, 

such as orders, notices, and 

rulemakings. 

In addition, the Commission now 

offers a free service called eSubscription 

which allows you to keep track of all 

formal issuances and submittals in 

specific dockets. This can reduce the 

amount of time you spend researching 

proceedings by automatically providing 

you with notification of these filings, 

document summaries and direct links to 

the documents. Go to http:// 

www.ferc.gov/esubscribenow.htm. 

Finally, public meetings or site visits 

will be posted on the Commission’s 

calendar located at http://www.ferc.gov/ 

EventCalendar/EventsList.aspx along 

with other related information. 

Philis J. Posey, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E7–7508 Filed 4–19–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Notice of Application Accepted for 

Filing and Soliciting Comments, 

Protests, and Motions To Intervene 

April 16, 2007. 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection: 

a. Type of Application: Preliminary 

Permit. 

b. Project No.: 12784–000. 

c. Date filed: March 8, 2007. 

d. Applicant: Mt. Hope Waterpower 

Project LP. 

e. Name and Location of Project: The 

Mount Hope Pumped Storage Project 

would use water from the Mt. Hope 

Mine and would be built in the vicinity 

of Rockaway Township in Morris 

County, New Jersey. 

f. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

g. Applicant contact: Mr. Sam Ramiz, 

Mt. Hope Waterpower Project LP, 627 

Mt. Hope Road, Wharton, NJ 07885–

2837, (201) 361–1072. 

h. FERC Contact: Tom Papsidero, 

(202) 502–6002. 

i. Deadline for filing comments, 

protests, and motions to intervene: 60 

days from the issuance date of this 

notice. 

All documents (original and eight 

copies) should be filed with Kimberly D. 

Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

Comments, protests and interventions 

may be filed electronically via the 

Internet in lieu of paper; see 18 CFR 

385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions 

on the Commission’s Web site under the 

‘‘e-Filing’’ link. The Commission 

strongly encourages electronic filings. 

Please include the project number (P–

12784–000) on any comments or 

motions filed. 

The Commission’s Rules of Practice 

and Procedure require all intervenors 

filing documents with the Commission 

to serve a copy of that document on 

each person in the official service list 


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